News about the state and prospects of the defense industry

The US Navy is expanding the Tomahawk missile family. November 3, portal navalnews.com He reported that the command of the US Navy has signed a contract with Raytheon Missiles & Defense for the small-scale production of Maritime Strike Tomahawk Block Va missiles.

Sergey Ponomarev, Executive Director of the project, said that an operational and technical program aimed at increasing the realism of the mission is also planned

The crew members of the SIRIUS-2021 mission will conduct more than 70 experiments during 240 days of isolation. This was announced to TASS on Thursday by the executive director of the project Sergey Ponomarev.

The SIRIUS-2021 isolation experiment will start on November 4 in Moscow on the basis of the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences

The emblem with the flags of the countries participating in the SIRIUS-2021 experiment, as well as the names of all 12 applicants for crew members, will become the mascot of the project participants. This was announced to journalists on Thursday by the crew commander Oleg Blinov.

According to cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov, one of the units being removed is the docking mechanism of a multi-purpose laboratory module, which was the first to touch the ISS during docking

More than a ton of spent equipment and household waste will be on board the Progress MS-17 cargo ship, which will be undocked from the ISS on November 25 before flooding. This was announced by Roscosmos cosmonaut Peter Dubrov on Thursday.

China continues to develop its nuclear weapons program. November 3, portal cbsnews.com He reported that a new report from the US Department of Defense indicates that by 2030, China will be able to have thousands of nuclear weapons.

Participation in the scientific work of the SIRIUS-21 experiment will allow the European Space Agency (ESA) to prepare its astronaut for a flight to the Moon, head of the ESA representative office in Russia Rene Pichel told Interfax.

NASA astronauts have grown and eaten chili peppers on the International Space Station (ISS) for the first time in history. This was announced by American Catherine MacArthur on her Twitter account.

For the last 45 years, the peculiarity of domestic tanks is that they can use guided missile weapons. Initially, these were complexes with radio command guidance.

Then, in the mid-80s, combat vehicles were adopted by the ground forces, the ammunition of which included more advanced ammunition, already guided by a laser beam.

The tank received a 1,130 hp engine.

A batch of T-72B3M tanks with improved characteristics entered service with the army corps of the Baltic Fleet in the Kaliningrad region. This was reported on Tuesday by the press service of the fleet.

Fighters of one of the units of the People's Militia of Donbass modified the captured Ukrainian T-64BV. According to the project of the Rossiyskaya Gazeta "Russian Weapons", the main battle tank was equipped with two special searchlights, nicknamed "red eyes".

The use of drones increases the survivability of personnel, said Major General Alexei Belousov

Starting this year, Russian military intelligence officers will begin receiving the latest communication systems for real-time coordination on the battlefield. This was announced in an interview with the newspaper "Krasnaya Zvezda" by the head of intelligence - Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Ground Forces for Intelligence, Major General Alexei Belousov.

The nearest date of dispatch from the point of view of ballistic requirements is May 25, said Igor Mitrofanov, Head of the Department of Nuclear Planetology at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

The final decision on the timing of the launch of the first mission to the Earth's natural satellite Luna-25 in the history of modern Russia will be made in March-April 2022. This was reported to TASS by the head of the Department of Nuclear Planetology of the Institute of Space Research (ICI) RAS Igor Mitrofanov.

They will be part of the Pacific Fleet

The largest Russian shipyard Sevmash will transfer two nuclear submarines to the Russian Navy in 2022 - the strategic Generalissimo Suvorov of project 955A (code "Borey-A") and the strike Krasnoyarsk of project 885M (code "Yasen-M"). This was reported to TASS by a source close to the Russian military department.

In the 2021 academic year, the Russian military conducted more than 200 command and staff exercises on the territory of the Western Military District. This was announced on Wednesday, November 3, by the press service of the ZVO.

Next year, Sevmash will transfer two nuclear submarines, a strategic and a strike, to the Russian Navy. Both will serve in the Pacific Fleet.

The crews of the Rostov-on-Don and Veliky Novgorod submarines practiced striking with Kalibr-PL missiles during the exercise

The crews of submarines of the Black Sea Fleet during the exercises worked out a missile strike on a detachment of ships of a conditional enemy, the press service of the Black Sea Fleet said on Wednesday.

The state shipbuilding company SIMA (Servicios Industriales de la Marina) plans to launch a second amphibious helicopter ship-dock (DVKD) "Paita" (Paita) class "Makassar" (Makassar) in the middle of 2022.

The wheeled road vehicle (KDM), developed specifically for the engineering units of the Strategic Missile Forces, will replace five samples of engineering equipment designed for the preparation and maintenance of combat patrol routes and field positions of mobile ground missile systems.

The Main Test Space Center held the XXV Interdepartmental Scientific and Practical Conference "Space Systems and Complexes: testing, management, application" at the site of the Patriot Space Center.

During the exercises, the crews of the Rostov-on-Don and Veliky Novgorod submarines practiced striking with Kalibr-PL missiles at a detachment of ships of a conditional enemy.